RE: [F&O] INF, -INF and NaN - literals?

This is actually a comment on the XPath grammar.
These 3 literals need to be defined as numeric literals in section 3.1.1.

All the best, Ashok
 

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> Paul Adams
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> Subject: [F&O] INF, -INF and NaN - literals?
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> 15.4.2.1 Shows an example:
> 
> fn:avg((INF, -INF)) returns NaN.
> 
> Are INF, -INF and NaN supposed to be literals of type 
> xs:double, as is implied by this example (at least, that's 
> the inference I draw)?
> Because the grammar for literals does not include them. 
> Elsewhwere I can only find mention of them as special string 
> values for the xs:double constructor.
> 
> My XPath parser currently parses these expressions as 
> child::INF etc. Clearly I have a problem with the 
> interpretation of the grammar.
> --
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire
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